A Washtenaw County Circuit Court jury awarded a teacher $2.5 million in a medical malpractice verdict, after suffering permanent injury during a procedure at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Amy Garcia suffered a miscarriage in 2007 causing the death of her 14-week-old fetus and as a result required a dilation and…
In personal injury cases in New York the defense of an intervening act as a superseding cause of plaintiff’s injury will often be raised to absolve defendant’s negligence as a proximate cause of plaintiff’s injury. From the plaintiff’s perspective it should be argued that questions of causation are in most…
Doctor named in wrongful death suit (Northern Virginia Daily) 60-year-old woman pleads to drunk driving crash that hit a family of pedestrians (The Grand Rapids Press, MI) Diver’s Lawsuit Alleges Work-Related Collapsed Lung Injuries (U.S. Dist. Ct. LA W.D.) Hallmark Sued for House Fire Linked to Snow Globe (AP) Woman…
Lawyers consider filing about 100 malpractice cases against Dr. Spyros Panos (Poughkeepsie Journal, NY) Boy dies when church van hit by drunken driver, FHP says (Herald-Tribune, FL) Jury doles out $9M in broken neck case; malpractice award thought to be largest ever in Wyo. (Washington Post) Crash victim sues San…
Howard S. Hershenhorn Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Christopher Sallay Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Howard S. Hershenhorn will serve as Overall Planning Chair and Christopher L. Sallay will serve as Assistant Chair of the New York Bar Association‘s Labor Law/Construction Site…
In this new program, an outstanding faculty, including partners of many of New York State’s leading plaintiff and defendant personal injury law firms, will focus on specific types of cases frequently encountered in motor vehicle litigation. Open to both new and experienced attorneys, this practice-based program will present the “nuts…
TRIAL PRACTICE Richard M. Steigman, Esq. Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Our attorney Richard Steigman will be speaking at the The New York State Trial Lawyers Association Decisions 2011 program on November 2, 2011. The topic he will be speaking on is Trial Practice. This annual event…
Cambridge police settle civil rights case (Bay State Banner, MA) Hawaii-based soldier’s lawsuit against Burger King claims he swallowed needles in hamburger (AP) Paralyzed East Naples woman settles lawsuit against three doctors (Naples Daily News, FL) Paralyzed teen’s family wins medical malpractice suit (Detroit Free Press) Portland parents sue Legacy…
State Supreme Court rules Richland woman can proceed in negligence case (Tri-City Herald, WA) HARALAMPOPOULOS v. KELLY(Court of Appeals of Colorado) West Virginian jury awards $4.2 million in medical malpractice verdict (The Record, WV) University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the state of Iowa settled two lawsuits recently totaling…
In Delaney v. Town Sports International, doing business as New York Sports Club, et al., 2d Department decided on October 4, 2011, the Court was with faced with the age old question of trivial or de minimis defects. The plaintiff suffered injury as a result of falling over a moveable…